OF A BOOKWORM; OR SELECTIONS FROM THE PORTFOLIO OF A Literary Gentleman. "He hath strange places, cramm'd LONDON: J. E. FLUTTER, 1, BIRCHIN LANE, CORNHILL 1828. 399 6. Prefatory Address. THE scraps of information and amusement which will constitute the Eight Numbers of which this little Work will consist, are actually, as stated in the title-page, Selections from the Portfolio of a Literary Gentleman, the Editor of the Work, by whom most of the articles have been culled from productions which he has, from time to time, for some years past, either peeped into, or pored through; while for some he is indebted to the kindness of friends, and for others, perhaps those of the most value,-to the industry of his late father, from whom he may probably have inherited the propensity of gleaning from whatever he might read, such passages as might be deemed by him worthy of preservation; a propensity, by the way, which he hesitates not to recommend to others, as the certain means of storing up much knowledge for future reference, which would otherwise be forgotten and lost. These notes, scraps, or whatever else they may be appropriately denominated, he has now B |